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Students realise internet is real: concern of internet follies harming job prospects
News flash: the internet isn't some otherwordly place of no consequence to the "real" world. What happens on the internet does NOT stay on the internet, it will follow you around. 42% of students are becoming concerned that some…
Textbook renting for students heading to Amazon Kindle
Starting university can be tough on your wallet; if you're not paying tuition fees, you're buying rounds for people you've just met at the student union, and that's before you've even thought about all the text books you're going…
US students get free Xbox 360 with new Windows 7 PCs and laptops
As if college kids on campus weren't having a wild enough time as it is, Microsoft are launching a pretty incredible deal to ensure new and continuing US students work hard and play hard during the next academic year. If…
Teacher is sacked after whinging about students on Facebook
It's Darwinian, really: put a trap in place that only the most stupid will fall into. Complaining about the children you are teaching on Facebook probably falls into this category. A teacher at the Paterson School in the US…
China still surfs free as Green Dam is halted
There were parties in the street late last night in Beijing as Chinese students celebrated the last-minute halt of the Green Dam plan.
The meet up was originally planned to discuss censorship, debate other studenty matters and generally fill in time while the web went down for 24 hours to apply the Chinese government’s much criticised content filter.
The students, in the green protest t-shirts, arrived at the event instead to find an unlikey partial victory over their leaders with the news that the roll out of the project has been pushed back – at least for now. It’s unclear how long it will be before Green Dam does come into action, or if indeed it will be moth balled perminantly, but, at least for now, the students of China have the result they were looking for.
Stinking (rich) students own six grand's worth of gadgets, instruments and clothes
I’d better not hear any more students moaning about how little money they have, because a new survey suggests that the average student has over £6,000 worth of gadgetry, musical instruments, and clothes knocking around in their digs.
Two years ago students “only” had around £2,000 of goods, but Endsleigh Insurance found that it’s an increasingly high-tech world, with mobile phones, laptops, and desktop computers now winging their way to university. Interestingly, though, some students spend even more on musical instruments, with an average value of £689, though only one in four have such gear, while four in five have a laptop PC…
Games industry scoffs at rubbish video games degrees
A large majority of video games degrees at British universities are failing to provide their students with necessary skills to make it in the video games industry, according to leading figures.
